Faculty & Research
Seminar
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JUN
10
- June 4, 2026
- Accounting
Beyond the Shadows: Dark Web and Financial Markets
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Time
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Prof. Guang Ma (Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University)
We examine the impact of dark web on financial markets. Using Large Language Models to analyze 297,935 posts, we find that dark web signals lead surface web by seven days, reflecting significant verification latency. Dark web posts exhibiting negative sentiment or high financial specificity predict…
JUN
5
- June 4, 2026
- Accounting
Interlocking Directors and Technology Exclusion
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Time
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Prof. Hojun Seo(Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University)
We investigate whether interlocking directorates influence technology licensing and the exclusion of peer firms from accessing essential technologies. We find that firms connected through interlocking directors are more likely to enter into licensing agreements and that, following these interlock-dr…
MAY
27
- June 4, 2026
- Accounting
Voluntary Disclosure, Investment Externality, and Public Information
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Time
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Prof. Keri Hu (HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong)
We study voluntary disclosure in a two-firm model in which firms’ investments exhibit complementarity. Before investment takes place, one firm may privately observe information about its investment opportunity and may disclose it in the presence of a public signal. Beyond providing information, disc…
MAY
20
- May 14, 2026
- Accounting
Geopolitical Risk and Corporate Disclosures: Evidence from the War in Ukraine
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Time
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Prof. Bokhyeon Baik (SNU Business School, Seoul National University University)
Using the Russo–Ukrainian war as our setting, we find that geopolitical threats increase investor information gathering and residual short interest. Most firms delay voluntary disclosure of their exposure until after the invasion begins, creating a temporal misalignment between investor information…
MAY
13
- May 12, 2026
- Management
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Time
4:30–5:50 PM (usual time)
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Venue
International Hall 90402
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Speaker
Wonsang Ryu (Yonsei University)
International business research has long viewed the cross-border sharing of firm-specific intangible resources as a key mechanism underpinning the existence and value creation of MNEs. Although this perspective has largely rested on the assumption that intangible resources are freely transferable, s…
MAY
6
- May 4, 2026
- Decision Science
Decentralized Contest Design in Networks
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Time
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Prof. Zenan Wu (School of Economics, Peking University)
Heterogeneous players are matched into interconnected pairwise contests across multiple battlefields. Each organizer independently sets her contest rules to maximize effort provision on her respective battlefield. The conventional wisdom of leveling the playing field may fail in this environment. Ho…
APR
29
- April 24, 2026
- Marketing
Seeing Green Without Buying Green: Evidence from Amazon's Climate Pledge Friendly Program
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402
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Speaker
Professor Junhong Chu (Hong Kong University)
The authors evaluate consumer responses to and the financial viability of corporate environmental initiatives using Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly (CPF) program, partnering with a leading Amazon seller which also operates a direct-to-consumer website. Using both within-platform and cross-platform…
APR
15
- April 9, 2026
- Management
Dancing with rivals: Managing coopetition in publicly initiated R&D consortia
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Time
4:30–5:50 PM
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Venue
SKKU, 90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Audrey Rourye(MBS School of Business)
This paper examines how actors manage coopetition tensions during the formation of publicly initiated R&D consortia. While such consortia are increasingly used to address complex technological challenges, their formation phase remains underexplored—particularly when they involve direct competitors a…
APR
8
- April 2, 2026
- Finance
Structured Beliefs in Fund Managers’ Own Words: Fundamentals, Policy, and Sentiment
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Time
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Professor Zhenyu Gao (CUHK Business School, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Using mandatory Outlook reports from Chinese mutual funds, we extract each fund’s beliefs about the equity market and decompose them into three components: beliefs about macroeconomic fundamentals, beliefs about government policy, and a residual that captures fund sentiment. We find that policy beli…
APR
1
- March 26, 2026
- Accounting
Do Managers Invest in Stakeholder Relationships for Personal Insurance Purposes?
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Time
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Professor Peter Oh (McGill University)
While prior research largely explains stakeholder investments in terms of firm-level benefits, what motivates individual managers, who have discretion over resource allocation, to invest in stakeholder relationships remains relatively unknown. We examine managers’ motivation for investing in stakeho…